As long as kwijybo is still legal I’ve got no complaints.

Reminds me of that classic George Carlin bit. How does that go again?

I wet 'em!

I could just not get into The Return. I loved MST3K growing up. Loved it.

Shout Factory learned, almost too late, that man is a feeling creature and, because of it, the greatest in the universe. It learned, too late for itself, that men have to make their own way, to make their own mistakes. There can't be any gift of perfection from outside ourselves. And, when men seek such perfection,…

"You know, Captain, every year of my life I grow more and more convinced that the wisest and the best is to fix our attention on the good and the beautiful. If you just take the time to look at it."

197 episodes before the reboot and there's only 12 that Shout Factory couldn't get the rights for? That's really damn impressive no matter how you look at it.

Which is most likely exactly what Jonah et al would've done. Maybe that's it, maybe the jokes in this season are too obvious. They're *good* but not always *witty.* Witty often enough for me to still want to re-watch, but not up to the previous writing caliber.

I think the signalling the joke thing is the difference between having Mike Nelson as head writer and not having Mike Nelson as head writer.

So: is Patton Oswald just going to be in everything from now on? I'm not complaining; I think his standup is great, and he seems like a nice enough geek, but he's way more ubiquitous than seems reasonable.

My two cents based on the first two episodes : I think the riffs have been great — good enough that my roommate, who isn't a big fan, laughed out loud twice just walking through the living room on the way to the bathroom while I was watching. The host segments have also been better than I expected and the chorus of…

Yeah it bothered me too. For all of the (rightful) critiques of Servo's blah new voice, this I thought was strange. I see Joel's explanation from Free Dummy below and it makes sense to have a woman do it, but did it have to be such a boring, characterless voice?

Gypsy's just always kind of been there for me, so I just kind of shrug at the change of voice. In the backer emails, though, I thought Joel gave a pretty laudable reason for the change. Gypsy is one of the only female characters on the show and her defining characteristic is that she's kind of dumb (or in show canon,…

As the world's biggest and only Gypsy fan I was way too jarred and disappointed to see that she's finally in the show MORE now but in no way sounds anything like the character I grew to love. A character that's made in large part of a funny voice and big awkward puppet.

That guy looked like he was really hurting that raccoon!


Seriously, that was upsetting!

So you're saying you just want to watch the movies on their own? Thats very easy to accomplish.

It gives a nice natural break point for getting up to grab snacks or whatever. Plus explanations of obscure points of show mythology. Not that most of those things need to be explained per se.

Watched the first episode last night. Some knee-jerk reactions:

@avclub-23715123e5ab7cdeef35d1cc064d9e44:disqus - did you take Trace Beaulieu's Dr. Clayton Forrester seriously? He always seemed like a nice guy playing an evil genius to me.

I know it's a goof but I just can't take Felicia Day seriously as a "villain"